We could have had it aaallllll- pet peeve fandoms

yeah, River frustrates me.
SHE COULD HAVE BEEN SO AWESOME
and she waaaaaaaassssssnnnn't

 

I actually didn't find the Nerada all that scary... like yeah the taking over your body thing was spooky but the 'oh they're in EVERY SHADOW' really wasn't because obviously they're not in nearly big enough numbers, and plenty of things exist that aren't scary that could be bad in large numbers. Plus the fact that it's actually really easy to have multiple shadows, just stand with two different light sources.

Eh. Maybe it's just me?

 

they really freaked me out when I first saw it?
but not once I rewatched it, idk why.

 

Moffat's really, really good at cool monsters. And I agree SitL/FotD are good episodes, it's just that they felt a bit more like Moffat overreaching to me than his previous ones.

And yeah, River. Doesn't help that she steadily got worse and less interesting in all her subsequent appearances because of Moffat's various pervasive writing biases (gender role/stereotype stuff and Everything Is About The Doctor).

 

for me it was the whole "is the person actually talking or is it just the suit recorder???" thing, because I knew something bad was going to happen, but I could't do anything to prevent it, and I didn't know when it's going to happen. it's kinda like a jumpscare, but with added anxiety beforehand. so it wasn't the monsters so much as it was the way they preyed on people. I mean, if anyone has watched Gravity Falls,

Spoiler: GF spoilers I guess

that time when Ford's glasses got all shiny and Dipper couldn't tell if he'd been possessed by Bill or not really freaked me out too,

and that didn't have ravenous shadow piranhas involved or anything, so.

 

every single appearance just went more and more downhill
and it was so very frustrating

 

UGHHHHHHH RIVER
I was so excited for her!
She had the in-control attitude and emotionally mature (eh? words) sass that had been missing since Donna.
(Fuck I miss Donna Noble)
And this was the first time we had a character that consistently knew things the Doctor didn't and used it to mess with him and it had SO MUCH POTENTIAL

And then Moffat.

 

and then moffat sums up pretty much everything

 

i wish i could have gotten into dr who tbh because it sounds really cool but i couldnt get past the first season :/ (of the recent revival, i havent seen the old stuff)

 

Honestly, I adore 9-as-the-doctor, but the first season of the revival is utter garbage except for The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, which incidentally are my favourite revival episodes (except maaaybe Heaven Sent.)

 

i just remembered... has anyone here read the kane chronicles? by rick riorden

i love that series but also

Spoiler: plot spoiler

tfw the author resolves the love triangle by putting the two boys into a blender

tho to be fair resolving the triangle by making it vaguely polyamorous is better than some other love triangle resolutions i have read

also the entire series had a cannonically incestuous undertone which amuses me to no end

 

I mean it's certainly a unique way to solve that problem...

 

That freaked me out too. Especially since I wasn't sure that...

Spoiler: GF spoilers

the machine itself hadn't been possessed by Bill, given that it kept tempting Dipper to do things he shouldn't do, chiefest among them putting the headset ON FORD.

 

Speaking of GF spoilers:

Spoiler: don't read this if you haven't seen the end or if you know my GF metas piss you off

I was initially not best pleased with them finally going on the boat trip together, although I've decided that it might be okay since they spent 30 years apart becoming their own people sorta, except that Stan really hasn't. Expecting your twin sibling not to go to college in order to fulfil a dubious life goal that you made when you were somewhere between 8-12 years of age is nothing but incredibly co-dependent behaviour. Claiming that he ruined your life 10+ years later by not doing so is still incredibly co-dependent behaviour. Spending the next 30 years of your life not developing any significant close relationships except by utter accident because getting them back is the only thing you can think of, to the point where you're willing to steal radioactive waste and turn on an extremely dangerous and weird machine in your basement while you have children staying in your house, is still incredibly co-dependent behaviour. It's very sad and I wouldn't want to thank him for doing it either; he basically has given up his entire life for Ford and Ford never wanted that. Whether or not Ford still (after 30 years!) wanted to come back (and that's debatable too in my opinion) he didn't want it to cost so much for Stan even if Weirdmageddon wasn't an option. How do you respond to that? It's not love, it's obsession.

I want Ford and Stan to be happy and to have a good relationship with each other but I'm not sure that having Ford decide to do everything they promised to do when they were 12 is the best way to achieve that. Especially since Stan doesn't really seem to want romance seriously, but Ford's need to be involved with someone is so deep that it terrifies him--in part, probably because he was in such a co-dependent relationship with Stan, then whatever he got into with Fiddleford despite Fidds' marriage, and--look at the way he devoted himself to Bill, which was a terrible relationship of some sort whether or not there were any sexual components to it. There is a reason the Stancest people say that their ship sailed in the finale and I can see it, but that's not the way I want them to spend what's left of their lives, and I really do hope they find "babes" of whatever genders they like to share their trip.

 

yep, i've read it!
I'd rather that romance was just left out entirely, really.

 

This basically summarizes my primary problem with huge, huge swathes of media. :::PPP

 

Same same same.

I'm very much a romantic person but I don't like the way romance tends to happen in media.

 

yeah same :/

im not like against romance in general in stories but like, sometimes it is just Not Needed

 

That's not my issue;

my issue is that romance in most media is usually het and usually written in a way that disadvantages the female character, that is to say if she has not been created specifically to fit into the little holes in the male lead's personality and cast to appeal to men aged 18-34 in the first place.

 

like, ninety percent of the stuff I read, the romance is bullshit and could be completely cut with no problem